On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 9:58 AM, Dun Peal <dunpealer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have the pattern `*.out` defined in my `core.excludesfile`. > According to the documentation[1], patterns defined in > `$GIT_DIR/info/exclude` take precedence over `core.excludesfile`, so > for one particular project that needs to track some `.out` files, I > created `$GIT_DIR/info/exclude` with just one pattern: `!*.out`. > > Yet for some reason, `git status` still fails to report newly created > `.out` files for that project. Am I misunderstanding the > documentation? We process in groups, so rules in core.excludesfile are in one group, those in $GIT_DIR/info/exclude in another group. Negative patterns only has effects within their group, so !*out in .../exclude can't revert *.out in core.excludesfile. Probably implementation limitation, not by design.. But even if we flatten them into one group, i'm not sure you can achieve that. The patterns would be !*.out *.out "!*.out" has nothing to revert because it's before "*.out". -- Duy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html